1 Samuel 2:28-36

28 '¹Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not ²give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?

29 'Why do you ³kick at My sacrifice and at My offering ⁴which I have commanded in My ⁵dwelling, and ⁶honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the choicest of every offering of My people Israel?'

30 "Therefore the LORD God of Israel declares, '⁷I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever * '; but now the LORD declares, 'Far be it from Me-for ⁸those who honor Me I will honor, and those ⁹who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

31 'Behold, ¹⁰the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house so that there will not be an old man in your house.

32 'You will see ¹¹the distress of My dwelling, in spite of all the good that I do for Israel; and an ¹²old man will not be in your house forever *.

33 'Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.

34 'This will be ¹³the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: ¹⁴on the same day both of them will die.

35 'But ¹⁵I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and ¹⁶I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before ¹⁷My anointed always *.

36 'Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, "Please assign me to one of the priest's offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.""'

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1 Samuel 2:28-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 2

In this chapter the song of Hannah is recorded, 1Sa 2:1-10, and an account is given of the return of Elkanah and Hannah to their own home, and of the care she took yearly to provide a coat for Samuel, and of her being blessed with many other children, and of the growth and ministry of Samuel before the Lord, 1Sa 2:11,18-21,26, and of the wickedness of the sons of Eli, 1Sa 2:12-17, and of Eli's too gentle treatment of them when he reproved them for it, 1Sa 2:22-25 and of a sharp message sent him from the Lord on that account, threatening destruction to his house, of which the death of his two sons would be a sign, 1Sa 2:27-36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 17

1. Exodus 28:1-4; Exodus 30:7, 8; Leviticus 8:7, 8
2. Leviticus 7:35, 36
3. 1 Samuel 2:13-17
4. Deuteronomy 12:5-9
5. Psalms 26:8
6. Matthew 10:37
7. Exodus 29:9; Numbers 25:13
8. Psalms 50:23
9. Malachi 2:9
10. 1 Samuel 4:11-18; 1 Samuel 22:17-20
11. 1 Kings 2:26, 27
12. Zechariah 8:4
13. 1 Samuel 10:7-9; 1 Kings 13:3
14. 1 Samuel 4:11, 17
15. 1 Samuel 3:1; 1 Samuel 7:9; 1 Samuel 9:12, 13
16. 1 Samuel 8:3-5; 1 Samuel 25:28; 2 Samuel 7:11, 27; 1 Kings 11:38
17. 1 Samuel 10:9, 10; 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 16:13

Footnotes 8

[a]. Or "first"
[b]. Or "arm"
[c]. Or "arm"
[d]. Lit "He does"
[e]. Lit "to waste away your eyes and to grieve your soul"
[f]. Lit "as men"
[g]. Or "payment"
[h]. Lit "attach"

1 Samuel 2:28-36

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1 Samuel 2:28-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 2

Cross References 17

Footnotes 8